Past NBA Championship History, Game Results and MVP's

Year Champion           Loser                  Games    MVP

2013 Miami Heat         San Antonio Spurs       4-3     LeBron James, Miami
2012 Miami Heat         Oklahoma City Thunder   4-1     LeBron James, Miami
2011 Dallas Mavericks   Miami Heat              4-2     Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas
2010 Los Angeles Lakers Boston Celtics          4-3     Kobe Bryant, LAL
2009 Los Angeles Lakers Orlando Magic           4-1     Kobe Bryant, LAL
2008 Boston Celtics     Los Angeles Lakers      4-2     Paul Pierce, Boston
2007 San Antonio Spurs  Cleveland Cavaliers     4-0     Tony Parker, San Antonio
2006 Miami Heat         Dallas Mavericks        4-2     Dwyane Wade, Miami   

2005 San Antonio Spurs  Detroit Pistons         4-1     Tim Duncan, San Antonio 
2004 Detroit Pistons    Los Angeles Lakers      4-1     Chauncey Billups, Detroit
2003 San Antonio Spurs  New Jersey Nets         4-2     Tim Duncan, San Antonio 
2002 Los Angeles Lakers New Jersey Nets         4-0     Shaquille O'Neal, LAL
2001 Los Angeles Lakers Philadelphia 76ers      4-1     Shaquille O'Neal, LAL
2000 Los Angeles Lakers Indiana Pacers          4-2     Shaquille O'Neal, LAL
1999 San Antonio Spurs  New York Knicks         4-1     Tim Duncan, San Antonio 
1998 Chicago Bulls      Utah Jazz               4-2     Michael Jordan, Bulls
1997 Chicago Bulls      Utah Jazz               4-2     Michael Jordan, Bulls
1996 Chicago Bulls      Seattle SuperSonics     4-2     Michael Jordan, Bulls
1995 Houston Rockets    Orlando Magic           4-0     Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston
1994 Houston Rockets    New York Knicks         4-3     Hakeem Olajuwon, Houston
1993 Chicago Bulls      Phoenix Suns            4-2     Michael Jordan, Bulls
1992 Chicago Bulls      Portland Trail Blazers  4-2     Michael Jordan, Bulls
1991 Chicago Bulls      Los Angeles Lakers      4-1     Michael Jordan, Bulls
1990 Detroit Pistons    Portland Trail Blazers  4-1     Isiah Thomas, Detroit
1989 Detroit Pistons    Los Angeles Lakers      4-0     Joe Dumars, Detroit
1988 Los Angeles Lakers Detroit Pistons         4-3     James Worthy, LAL 
1987 Los Angeles Lakers Boston Celtics          4-2     Magic Johnson, LAL
1986 Boston Celtics     Houston Rockets         4-2     Larry Bird, Boston
1985 Los Angeles Lakers Boston Celtics          4-2     Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, LAL 
1984 Boston Celtics     Los Angeles Lakers      4-3     Larry Bird, Boston
1983 Philadelphia 76ers Los Angeles Lakers      4-0     Moses Malone, Phili
1982 Los Angeles Lakers Philadelphia 76ers      4-2     Magic Johnson, LAL
1981 Boston Celtics     Houston Rockets         4-2     Cedric Maxwell, Boston
1980 Los Angeles Lakers Philadelphia 76ers      4-2     Magic Johnson, LAL
1979 Seattle SuperSonics Washington Bullets     4-1     Dennis Johnson, Seattle
1978 Washington Bullets  Seattle SuperSonics    4-3     Wes Unseld, Wash.
1977 Portland Trail Blazers Philadelphia 76ers  4-2     Bill Walton, Portland
1976 Boston Celtics      Phoenix Suns           4-2     Jo Jo White, Boston
1975 Golden State Warriors Washington Bullets   4-0     Rick Barry, G.S.
1974 Boston Celtics      Milwaukee Bucks        4-3     John Havlicek, Boston
1973 New York Knicks     Los Angeles Lakers     4-1     Willis Reed, Knicks
1972 Los Angeles Lakers  New York Knicks        4-1     Wilt Chamberlain, LAL
1971 Milwaukee Bucks     Baltimore Bullets      4-0     Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bucks
1970 New York Knicks     Los Angeles Lakers     4-3     Willis Reed, Knicks
1969 Boston Celtics      Los Angeles Lakers     4-3     Jerry West, LAL
1968 Boston Celtics      Los Angeles Lakers     4-2 
1967 Philadelphia 76ers  San Francisco Warriors 4-2 
1966 Boston Celtics      Los Angeles Lakers     4-3 
1965 Boston Celtics      Los Angeles Lakers     4-1 
1964 Boston Celtics      San Francisco Warriors 4-1 
1963 Boston Celtics      Los Angeles Lakers     4-2 
1962 Boston Celtics      Los Angeles Lakers     4-3 
1961 Boston Celtics      St. Louis Hawks        4-1 
1960 Boston Celtics      St. Louis Hawks        4-3 
1959 Boston Celtics      Minneapolis Lakers     4-0 
1958 St. Louis Hawks     Boston Celtics         4-2 
1957 Boston Celtics      St. Louis Hawks        4-3 
1956 Philadelphia Warriors Fort Wayne Pistons   4-1 
1955 Syracuse Nationals  Fort Wayne Pistons     4-3 
1954 Minneapolis Lakers  Syracuse Nationals     4-3 
1953 Minneapolis Lakers  New York Knicks        4-1 
1952 Minneapolis Lakers  New York Knicks        4-3 
1951 Rochester Royals    New York Knicks        4-3 
1950 Minneapolis Lakers  Syracuse Nationals     4-2 
1949 Minneapolis Lakers  Washington Capitols    4-2 
1948 Baltimore Bullets   Philadelphia Warriors  4-2 
1947 Philadelphia Warriors Chicago Stags        4-1 

The Highest IQ's On Record

The Highest IQs On Record

People Still Alive

• Physicist / Engineer Kim Ung-yong has a verified IQ of 210
• Bouncer Christopher Michael Langan has a verified IQ of 195
• Engineer Philip Emeagwali is alleged to have an IQ of 190
• World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov is alleged to have an IQ of 190
• Author Marilyn Vos Savant has a verified IQ of 186
• Actor James Woods is alleged to have an IQ of 180
• Politician John H. Sununu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is alleged to have an IQ of 180
• Mathematician Andrew Wiles is alleged to have an IQ of 170
• World Chess Champion Judith Polgar is alleged to have an IQ of 170
• Chess Grandmaster Robert Byrne is alleged to have an IQ of 170
• World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer is alleged to have an IQ of 167
• Mathematician / Physicist Stephen W. Hawking is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
• Microsoft Founder Paul Allen is alleged to have an IQ of over 160
• Actress Sharon Stone is alleged to have an IQ of 154

From the Past

In 1926, psychologist Dr. Catherine Morris Cox – who had been assisted by Dr. Lewis M. Terman, Dr. Florence L. Goodenaugh, and Dr. Kate Gordon – published a study “of the most eminent men and women” who had lived between 1450 and 1850 to estimate what their IQs might have been. Data from that study as well as other sources around the net were compiled to form the following list. Please drop me a comment if you have additions or corrections (make sure and cite sources).

190 – Ludwig Wittgenstein 190 – Sir Isaac Newton 190 – François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) 180 – Leonardo da Vinci 180 – David Hume 180 – Buonarroti Michelangelo 179 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 176 – Emanuel Swedenborg 176 – Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 175 – Johannes Kepler 175 – Edmund Spenser 175 – Baruch Spinoza 174 – John Stuart Mill 171 – Blaise Pascal 170 – Michael Faraday 170 – George Friedrich Händel 170 – Antoine Lavoisier

170 – Martin Luther 165 – Galileo Galilei 165 – Charlotte Brontë 165 – Johann Sebastian Bach 165 – Thomas Hobbes 165 – Carl von Linné 165 – John Locke 165 – Joseph Priestley 165 – Ludwig van Beethoven 165 – Samuel Johnson 162 – René Descartes 162 – Madame De Stael 160 – Albert Einstein 160 – Robert Boyle 160 – Benjamin Franklin 159 – Immanuel Kant 156 – Linus Carl Pauling

156 – Sofia Kovalevskaya 156 – Thomas Chatterton 156 – Olof Palme 155 – Rembrandt van Rijn 155 – Miguel de Cervantes 155 – Jonathan Swift 153 – Charles Darwin 153 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 150 – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 150 – Nicolaus Copernicus 150 – Abraham Lincoln 145 – Napoleon Bonaparte 145 – Anna Lindh 143 – George Sand (Aurore Dupin) 140 – George Washington 130 – Ulysses S. Grant 130 – Sir Francis Drake

U.S. States - Population (2012)

Rank	State	Population	House Seats	Electoral Votes	Population per House Seat	Population per Electoral Vote
01	California	38,041,430	53	55	717,763	691,662
02	Texas	26,059,203	36	38	723,867	685,769
03	New York	19,570,261	27	29	724,824	674,837
04	Florida	19,317,568	27	29	715,465	666,123
05	Illinois	12,875,255	18	20	715,292	643,763
06	Pennsylvania	12,763,536	18	20	709,085	638,177
07	Ohio	11,544,225	16	18	721,514	641,346
08	Georgia	9,919,945	14	16	708,568	619,997
09	Michigan	9,883,360	14	16	705,954	617,710
10	North Carolina	9,752,073	13	15	750,159	650,138
11	New Jersey	8,864,590	12	14	738,716	633,185
12	Virginia	8,185,867	11	13	744,170	629,682
13	Washington	6,897,012	10	12	689,701	574,751
14	Massachusetts	6,646,144	9	11	738,460	604,195
15	Arizona	6,553,255	9	11	728,139	595,750
16	Indiana	6,537,334	9	11	726,370	594,303
17	Tennessee	6,456,243	9	11	717,360	586,931
18	Missouri	6,021,988	8	10	752,749	602,199
19	Maryland	5,884,563	8	10	735,570	588,456
20	Wisconsin	5,726,398	8	10	715,800	572,640
21	Minnesota	5,379,139	8	10	672,392	537,914
22	Colorado	5,187,582	7	9	741,083	576,398
23	Alabama	4,822,023	7	9	688,860	535,780
24	South Carolina	4,723,723	7	9	674,818	524,858
25	Louisiana	4,601,893	6	8	766,982	575,237
26	Kentucky	4,380,415	6	8	730,069	547,552
27	Oregon	3,899,353	5	7	779,871	557,050
28	Oklahoma	3,814,820	5	7	762,964	544,974
29	Connecticut	3,590,347	5	7	718,059	512,907
30	Iowa	3,074,186	4	6	768,547	513,364
31	Mississippi	2,984,926	4	6	746,232	497,488
32	Arkansas	2,949,131	4	6	737,283	491,522
33	Kansas	2,885,905	4	6	721,476	480,984
34	Utah	2,855,287	4	6	713,822	475,881
35	Nevada	2,758,931	4	6	689733	459,822
36	New Mexico	2,085,538	3	5	695,179	417,108
37	Nebraska	1,855,525	3	5	618,508	371,105
38	West Virginia	1,855,413	3	5	618,471	371,083
39	Idaho	1,595,728	2	4	797,864	398,932
40	Hawaii	1,392,313	2	4	696,157	348,078
41	Maine	1,329,192	2	4	664,596	332,298
42	New Hampshire	1,320,718	2	4	660,359	330,180
43	Rhode Island	1,050,292	2	4	525,146	262,273
44	Montana	1,005,141	1	3	1,005,141	335,047
45	Delaware	917,092	1	3	917,092	305,697
46	South Dakota	833,354	1	3	833,354	277,785
47	Alaska	731,449	1	3	731,449	243,816
48	North Dakota	699,628	1	3	699,628	233,209
49	Vermont	626,011	1	3	626,011	208,670
50	Wyoming	576,412	1	3	576,412	192,137

Top 10 Deadliest Airline Disasters

Top 10 deadliest airline disasters (1/10)

2014-03-14 11:02chinadaily.com.cnWeb Editor:Wang YuXia

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Thewreckage of Pan Am Flight 103. [Photo/wikipedia.org]

Nothing grabs people's attention like an airplane crash. Maybe it's the drama, the destruction or our fascination with flying that brings out the emotions no other type of accident does. While some car crashes, train derailments and sea tragedies do leave us in shock, but the feelings we experience when we see a plan crash are on a totally different scale. Here's a look at 10 deadliest airplane crashes, or at least disasters most likely caused by accident.

Despite the terrifying crashes, planes are by far the safest way to travel. For those with a fear of flying, it is worth noting that eight of these 10 accidents occurred in the '70s and '80s. Deadly incidents reveal shortcomings that are immediately fixed and that in turn make air travel safer.

No.10 Pan Am Flight 103 (the Lockerbie bombing) Year:1988

Fatalities: 270 Survivors: 0

Pan Am Flight 103, a transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York City, was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on Wednesday, December 21, 1988, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew on board. Large sections of the aircraft crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.

The explosion caused by the crash.[Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.9 American Airlines Flight 191 Year:1979

Fatalities: 273 Survivors: 0

Deadliest airline accident on the US soil occurred when McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 crashed on May 25, 1979, moments after takeoff from Chicago. All 258 passengers and 13 crew on board were killed, along with two people on the ground. The last maintenance on this particular aircraft, which was carried out eight weeks before the disaster, had damaged the pylons attaching one of the engines to the plane. As the airplane began its takeoff from O'Hare, that engine broke off from the aircraft and fell back onto the runway, taking a large section of the left wing with it, cutting electrical systems, and spilling hydraulic fluid, which controlled some mobile parts of the wing. Debris was thrown into a nearby trailer park, destroying several trailers and cars and an old aircraft hanger, as well as severely injuring several people on the ground and killing two. The crash left the model with a bad safety reputation, despite being generally a safe plane.

A similar A300B2-200 of Iran Air.[Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.8 Iran Air Flight 655 Year:1988

Fatalities: 290 Survivors: 0

An Iranian Airbus was shot down over the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war. The accident occurred after a confrontation in international waters between the United States military helicopter USS Vincennes and Iranian gunboats the Vincennes saw what appeared to them to be an Iranian F-14ATomcat fighter flying towards them. There was also confusion with the transponder codes that made it temporarily appear to be broadcasting a military code. The United States has never formally apologized for the accident.

The crash site of Air Africa.[Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.7 Air Africa Crash Year:1996

Fatalities: 2 onboard, 225-348 on the ground. Survivors: Possibly 6 onboard

This is by far the deadliest airplane accident for people on the ground. There is not a lot of information about this crash, probably because of its location and illegality. This cargo aircraft was leased from Russia, but it was being flown without a license. The plane crashed into a nearby marketplace, then exploded in a fireball, killing somewhere between 225 and 348 people, and injuring 500 more.

The burnt wreckage of Saudia Flight 163.[Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.6 Saudia Flight 163 Year:1980

Fatalities: 301 Survivors: 0

Six minutes after Saudia 163 flight took off from Riyadh, warnings sounded about smoke in the cargo compartment. The crew spent another four minutes trying to figure out what to do, then finally turned back to the airport. Damage from the fire forced them to shut down their middle engine. The airplane landed safely but not quickly — it continued to roll down the runway, away from the emergency vehicles that had expected them to stop immediately, and then the crew failed to immediately order an evacuation.

The same model of Boeing 747 237B used by Air India.[Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.5 AirIndiaFlight 182 Year:1985

Fatalities: 329 Survivors: 0

Air India Flight 182 was flying on the Montreal–London–Delhi route. On June 23, 1985, the aircraft operating on the route – Boeing 747-237B - was blown up by a bomb at an altitude of 9,400 m. It crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in Irish airspace. A total of 329 people were killed, including 268 Canadians, 27 British citizens and 24 Indians. The incident was the largest mass murder in Canadian history, and the deadliest aviation disaster to occur over a body of water. It is also the worst disaster in Indian aviation history, and worst aviation disaster in Irish territory.

The DC-10 airplane of Turkish airlines.[Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.4 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Year:1973

Fatalities: 346 Survivors: 0

Flying from Paris to London, the plane had an unusually large number of people onboard for this flight because of a British strike. As they flew over the town of Meaux, France, there was the sound of a muffled explosion and loud rush of air as the cargo hatch blew off. The cabin floor above the cargo hold collapsed, destroying the lines that connected the flight controls to the actual parts they were controlling. The pilots fought for control for 72 seconds before the aircraft crashed into a forest. The airplane disintegrated to such an extent that a bomb was temporarily considered as a possible cause. The cargo hatch that had blown off was found in a field along with part of the cabin floor and six seats still holding their dead passengers. This has been the deadliest crash of a DC-10.

A Boeing 747-100B of Saudi Arabian Airlines.[Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.3 Charkhi Dadri collision Year:1996

Fatalities: 349 Survivors: 0

The Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision occurred on 12 November 1996 over the village of Charkhi Dadri, to the west of New Delhi, India. The aircraft involved were a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B en route from New Delhi to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and a Kazakhstan Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 en route from Shymkent, Kazakhstan, to New Delhi. The crash killed all 349 people on board both planes, making it the world's deadliest mid-air collision, and the third-deadliest aircraft accident in the history of aviation, behind only the Tenerife airport disaster and Japan Airlines Flight 123.

JA8119, the aircraft involved in the accident, at Osaka International Airport in 1984. [Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.2 Japan Airlines Flight 123 Year:1985

Fatalities: 520 Survivors: 4

Japan Airlines Flight 123 was a scheduled domestic Japan Airlines passenger flight from Haneda Airport (Tokyo International Airport) to Osaka International Airport, Japan. On Monday, August 12, 1985, a Boeing 747SR operating this route suffered mechanical failures 12 minutes into the flight and, 32 minutes later, crashed into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara in Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 100 km (62 miles) from Tokyo. The crash site was on Osutaka Ridge, near Mount Osutaka. All 15 crew members and 505 of the 509 passengers on board died, resulting in a total of 520 deaths and 4 survivors. It is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history, and the second-deadliest accidental plane crash, behind the Tenerife airport disaster. The fatalities added to August 1985 being commercial aviation's single deadliest month for passengers plus crew, part of the single deadliest year.

A computer animated recreation of the collision.[Photo/wikipedia.org]

No.1 Tenerife airport disaster Year:1977

Fatalities: 583 Survivors: 61

The deadliest crash, like a perfect storm, was the combination of several rare events and it stands as proof that a great number of things usually have to go wrong before a disaster can occur. After a terrorist bombing at Gran Canaria (Las Palmas) International Airport, five large aircraft and a number of small aircraft that had been scheduled to stop there were diverted to the Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife. Los Rodeos was a much smaller airport, with one runway with a parallel taxiway and four exits between them. Planes usually taxied up the taxiway, then turned onto the runway and took off. In these extremely cramped conditions however, the parked aircraft took up a significant amount of the taxiway, meaning that a plane had to taxi up the runway and then somehow turn around to take off.

When Gran Canaria reopened, the parked aircraft blocking the taxiway at Tenerife required both of the 747s to taxi on the only runway in order to get in position for takeoff. The fog was so thick that neither aircraft could see the other, nor could the controller in the tower see the runway or the two 747s on it. As the airport did not have ground radar, the only means for the controller to identify the location of each airplane was via voice reports over the radio. As a result of several misunderstandings in the ensuing communication, the KLM flight attempted to take off while the Pan Am flight was still on the runway. The resulting collision destroyed both aircraft, killing all 248 aboard the KLM flight and 335 of 396 aboard the Pan Am flight. Sixty-one people aboard the Pan Am flight, including the pilots and flight engineer, survived the disaster.

Biggest Upsets In NCAA Tournament History

When Underdogs Dance

You're busy filling out your bracket and we're sure you are scrupulously studying those tight No. 8 vs. No. 9 games, and those tricky No. 5 vs. No. 12 match-ups. Careful now, don't write-off early exits from perennial powers. It's March, anything can happen. What? You don't think Sam Houston State can oust the Gators? Think twice, after all, weirder things have happened. Have a look at our list of the greatest upsets in men's NCAA tournament history. Then vote in the poll to crown the biggest shocker of all time.   1. NC State stuns Houston in championship game (1983) State had lost 10 regular season games, and nobody expected them to get to the Elite Eight, much less the championship game. But the Wolfpack was on a postseason roll, having won the ACC tournament and then advancing past Pepperdine, Virginia, and Georgia in tight games. Now they had the opportunity to face Houston's Akeem Olajuwon and the Phi Slamma Jamma gang. The top-ranked Cougars were cocky, and had reason to be. "We figure the team with the most dunks will win," predicted Olajuwon. If only it was so easy. NC State led  at the half, and overcame a 17-2 run by Houston at the start of the second half to tie the game at 52 with two minutes left. The Wolfpack then fouled freshman guard Alvin Franklin, who missed the front end of a one-and-one. State rebounded and held the ball for the last shot, but the final play went awry, and Dereck Whittenburg -- who'd sunk two straight to tie the game -- missed a desperation 30-footer. As it fell far short of the rim, Lorenzo Charles went up, grabbed it, and slammed it in with one second left for an amazing Wolfpack win.  2. Villanova beats Georgetown for championship (1985) Georgetown, the 1984 champions led by Patrick Ewing, looked like a lock in 1985. Villanova, the eighth seed in the Southeast Regional, never cracked the Top 20 and lost twice during the season to the Hoyas. What a mismatch. But it wasn't. The Wildcats led 29-28 at the half, and then played a nearly flawless second half, missing only one shot from the field. Villanova won, 66-64, by shooting 78 percent against the best defensive team in the nation. How great was 'Nova on that April Fool's day in Lexington? After the game, they were applauded by their stunned opponents. "Any time you shoot that percentage you deserve the praise," said Georgetown coach John Thompson. "You couldn't get much better." 3. Princeton eliminates UCLA (1996) You know why the backdoor was invented? So 13 seeds could sneak by the defending champs in the first round. Tigers, 43-41. 4. Texas Western defeats Kentucky for title (1966) How sweet it was. Texas Western (now the University of Texas at El Paso) and its all-black starting five, heavy underdogs vs. Kentucky ("Rupp's Runts" -- all under 6'6") and its openly racist coach, Adolph Rupp. Rupp could spot white talent -- Louie Dampier and Pat Riley were All-Americans -- but he couldn't spot the future. Texas Western, 72-65. 5. Boston College over No. 1 UNC in round two (1994) BC ended the Tar Heels' golden era of 13 straight Sweet 16 appearances, winning 75-72 despite facing a loaded, experienced team, featuring Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace, that had won the 1993 title. 6. Canisius stuns NC State, 79-78 (1956) Before the final four was the Final Four, before March went mad, there was still an undeniable exciting, anything-can-happen flavor to the tournament. Case in point: The Wolfpack was ranked second in the nation when they faced Canisius in the first round. And in quadruple overtime, Canisius won, 79-78. 7. Repeat for the Rebs? Duke just says no. National Semifinal (1991) The UNLV Runnin' Rebels couldn't lose -- most considered them unbeatable, even in the anything-can-happen world that is the NCAA dance. But Duke's D stopped the Rebels from doing much running, Christian Laettner and Bobby Hurley played brilliantly on the offensive end, and the Blue Devils avenged the 30-point drubbing UNLV had handed them in the 1990 final. The 79-77 Duke victory ended the Rebels' 45-game winning streak. 8. Santa Clara beats Arizona, clobbers the spread (1993) The 15th-seeded Broncos were 20-point underdogs against Arizona, who they faced in the first round of the West Regional in Salt Lake City. Santa Clara, described by the St. Louis Post Dispatch as "a motley jumble of eggheads, surfers and imports," survived a mid-game run of 25 straight points by the No. 2 seeded and fifth-ranked Wildcats to win, 64-61. One of the imports: Steve Nash. The unexpected win didn't come without consequences. The Broncos were almost thrown out of their hotel, which was fully booked with folks who were supposed to remain in Salt Lake. And there was the national media. "My wife wasn't too thrilled," said Broncos coach Dick Davey. "I had about 15 phone calls from reporters before 8 o'clock. Jiminy Christmas, I didn't know there were that many radio stations out there." It was the second straight year that Arizona had been ousted in the first round in a huge upset. In 1992, the victors had been 14th seed East Tennessee State. 9. Little Rock ousts the Irish (1986) Tenth-ranked Notre Dame went into their first round game at the Metrodome 17-point favorites over the University of Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans. The Irish played well, but the 14th-seeded Trojans played a near-perfect second half, going 15 for 19 from the field and hitting 9 of 11 from the free throw line in the final minutes to win, 90-83. Astounding on the court? Sure. But UALR coach Mike Newell, surrounded by the media after the game, wanted to let everyone know that this team was smart. ''The average grades of our players now is 2.3. When I got here, it was something like a 0.8.'' 10. LSU beats Kentucky, advances to the Final Four (1986) LSU, seeded 11th in the Southeast, had already lost three times to No. 1 Kentucky during the season. It seemed destined to be a doomed year for the Bayou Bengals -- after opening the season 14-0, they lost hot prospect Tito Horford, a 7-footer, who just up and left; Zoran Jovanovich, another 7-footer, who hurt his knee; Nikita Wilson, their leading rebounder and scorer, who flunked out; and then came the chicken pox. But in the tourney, they scored three straight upsets -- over Purdue, Memphis State, and Georgia Tech. Then they beat Kentucky 59-57 at the Omni in Atlanta, effectively using "The Freak," a deceptive defense devised by Dale Brown -- and became the lowest seed ever to make it to the Final Four. Billy Packer wrote that Brown did one of the "greatest coaching jobs in history," in getting his decimated team to the semis.